One word Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare One word
I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words. — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to. — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
My father was a minister for 50 years with Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. We prayed about everything, every day, then he always… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is… — Sheldon Harnick Copy Share Image
If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should at least… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.' — Joaquin Andujar Copy Share Image
This is love-not what we say to each other but what we not say. Sometime it just one look exchange. Sometime one word. But… — Thrity Umrigar Copy Share Image
One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
